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April 29, 2013

Spain’s “Atletico Madrid” football club’s staff visits the Heydar Aliyev Foundation

One of Spain’s and the world’s well known clubs – “Atletico Madrid”, which is on a visit to Azerbaijan to have a friendly match with “Baku” club’s “All Stars of Azerbaijan” team, visited the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, April 29.


During the visit coinciding with the 90th jubilee of national leader Heydar Aliyev, the guests were informed of the Foundation’s activity. They were told that the Foundation studies and promotes the rich legacy of the national leader. By implementing various social, economic and cultural projects, it provides support to Azerbaijan’s progress and promotion of its culture and history.


It was noted that, having always shown care and attention towards the development of sport in Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev was an initiator and inspirer of Olympic and sport movements in our country. The policy pursued by national leader Heydar Aliyev in this fild has resulted in large-scale participation of people in sport, and high achievements were reached in this field. During the last few years, our republic has become one of the sport centres of the world and hosted a number of respected sport competitions.


The guests also viewed pictures and exhibits taken from Heydar Aliyev’s personal archive and covering individual periods of his activity, reflecting the most different moments of his life and giving a broad idea of a whole period of our history. They acquainted themselves with materials related to the childhood and youth years  of the eminent political figure, his wide-scale activity as one of the former USSR leaders in Moscow, and the mock-up of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Main Export Pipeline.


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